Com uma mente MUITO aberta, preparado para o pior, embarquei no vôo rumo a Delhi. Devorei como nunca um Lonely Planet: o q fazer no aeroporto, para onde ir, onde ficar, o que fazer, e principalmente, o que não fazer (basicamente, não pode acreditar em ninguém que tenha qualquer interesse comercial). Tal qual 99,5% dos mochileiros, fui para Pahar...

As I write this I am 5 minutes into my working day at Katsuura Elementary School and am already sweaty. So it's rather fitting that I'm writing my India blog looking and feeling like I do right now! The weather in Japan has quickly changed into summer and the humidity (that I know well from living in the D.C. area all my life)....is back! ------...

Foreword: It's now been 4 days since Kirilee and went to hell and back in the Indian capital. I wanted to post this blog purely because it was a major experience of our trip and as ugly as it is... you've got to take the good with the bad and tell the story. Please be conscious of the fact that my recollection of the ordeal is slightly jaded fro...

After a quick flight from Goa (GoAir is great) we are now in Delhi, the capital. It's unbearably hot and the flies are quick to hover around us....this combined with the heat and pollution make Paharganj (the backpacker corridor) an unpleasant place...much worse than anything we've experienced in NYC or Mexico City. Delhi does make for a nice tr...

Arrived back in Delhi just after 8pm. Ordered room service and watched movies. Thankfully had booked into a hotel with TV otherwise would have been bored as anything. Flight left Delhi to Bangkok on Sunday at 11.30pm so just spent until then packing and watching movies. Was very very happy to get into the taxi and head for the airport. Yippeeeee...

Our one day whistle-stop tour of Old and New Delhi was to be given by Dinesh, a most interesting chap. He had previously been in the jewellery trade and had only become after a guide after an old friend stole millions of rupees of gems from his hotel room and then disappeared. After contemplating suicide, he decided to learn Japanese and become ...

A blissfully uneventful flight from London - a half empty cabin, friendly staff and decent food, something was bound to go wrong soon. At Delhi there was a modest delay getting off the plane due to a strike by the folk who connect the air-bridges to the planes which somehow meant that our luggage also struggled to find its way to us. Thank Santa...

Arrived back in India for the first time since early November. It is just as I remember, which is oddly comforting, a little nerve racking and always exhilarating. I arrived at the Gandhi Airport to find out the my meet and greet was not scheduled and my phone wasn't working. So I had to brave this one on my own. After being in New York for the ...

Coming home!!!! we leave later on this evening, but first i have to tell you about a little prblem we have been having . Everywhere i go i eat palak paneer...i wake up in the morning and i crave it, i need it oh how i love it, i can even tell you what cities it was the best, if i went to the same place twice if it was differnt. I think i have ev...

We are now in Delhi. There is actually an Old Delhi (from the 1600s) and a New Delhi (built by the British in the early 1900s. Delhi has always been the capital of India through the centuries through many invaders. There have been a total of 7 separate cities built on the same site going back to 1000 BC. Delhi means gateway so this has been cons...